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    WiiWare; Game Trading
    Topic Started: Feb 4 2011, 12:06 AM (329 Views)
    mikeywilliam
    Goomba
    Hello folks,
    Let me start out by saying that I've been trading and bartering for video game credit for a very long time. Well, today I came across something that put me in my place and was faced with the fact that I am not always on top of things like I would like to think I am.
    I was playing a virtual console game tonight that I had purchased a couple of days ago. I really don't care for this particular title after playing it awhile and regretted spending 1000 wii points on it. Tonight I came across a game trade site. There were wiiware titles on the site "for sell" at cheap prices. You can post you own for trade as well. I was scratching my head wondering just how this all pans out. You trade your wiiware games by "pm message" to buyers by exchanging wii friend codes. You then send them your game and they...well, send you something, I can only guess. This is where it gets sticky if you ask me. I thought the emphasis on the site was for trading games You already own and don't want anymore. I didn't realize (my fault entirely) how the wii shop channel "gift" option works. I've never "gifted" wii points, I've only "Downloaded". I didn't realize you could not give already purchased wiiware games to individuals as a gift. So how does this site pull this stuff! I mean, why in the world then would someone want to spend Thousands of wii points on a game they have never played, turn around and send it to someone that they don't know, in return for a messily 200 points? Further more how would they sell wiiware games from the site anyway, Wii point currency is handles on Nintendo's side, is it not? How is that a decent trade!? Do you think this kind of thing is a scam or am I missing something really obvious. Have any of you seen this?
    Edited by 55K, Feb 4 2011, 12:21 AM.
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    55K
    Cinematographer / Photographer

    Nice way of walking the fine line of advertising. You put the company's name back in there and I'll delete this.
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    AJ
     
    Get some subs in that bitch. two 12s and you can roll down the street like WOBWOBWOBWOBWOWBOBWOBWOBWOBWOBW ERRRRRRRRRRRRR DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN WOBWOBWOWBOWBWOBWOWOB
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    mikeywilliam
    Goomba
    Sorry, I wasn't trying to walk on egg shells here and Certainly not advertise. I just wanted to share my experience and was curious to know if anyone else had run across the same thing.
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